Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence..

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of lif….

A healer of others, himself diseased..

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara..

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!".

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale..

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears..

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord..

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's..

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears..

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpe….

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature..

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer ….

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors..

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements..

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions..

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the cri….

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous t….

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds..

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.".

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?".